Patients with ocular hypertension may benefit from cataract surgery, according to findings published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.
“Studies suggest that cataract surgery lowers IOP, and that this reduction is generally proportional to presurgical IOP. As well, several papers report a decrease in ocular hypotensive medications with cataract surgery,” Steven L. Mansberger, MD, MPH, ophthalmologist at Legacy Health in Portland, Ore., and colleagues wrote. “While these reports are helpful, they rarely examine the change in both IOP and ocular hypotensive medications,